The Nutmeg News prints opinion pieces from local contributors, at select times. Today's opinion piece comes from Ty Libby of Tampa, FL. The viewpoints and opinions of Mr. Libby do not necessarily reflect the viewpoints and opinions of The Nutmeg News.

Checkmate Atheists! Despite your long winded attempt to convince everyone that God isn’t real, what you failed to realize is that he is real, and we are already in hell.

How do I know this? I just look around.

As you always say, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim so here’s my proof.

How about this, if God isn’t real, how come the Cubs won the world series? Yeah, that was God pushing his concentrated will through the hate ether that envelops hell to manifest a world series victory for the Cubs.

How about this, if God isn’t real, how come Leicester won the Premier League? Yeah, that’s right…. it was God again…. he was battling across the wide dimensions, crossed the multidimensional plane, and rode into hell on a white steed with his blade Stormbringer all the while wearing a long flowing beard braided for battle as he gave his blessings onto the foot of Jamie Vardy and the managerial skill of Claudio Ranieri for one glorious season before God was kicked out of our current hellscape for too much meddling.

Look, if we evolved from swamps, how come the pool I haven’t cleaned in 4 years doesn’t have humans crawling out of it? At the very least I would expect an advanced civilization of sentient amoebas.

Without God how would we have the majesty of a bicycle kick, the career of Peter Crouch or the delights of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

Without the Devil how would we explain people defending racist cops and white supremacists shooting people?

Yeah, that’s right, without the Devil we would have to take responsibility for the fact that millions upon millions upon millions of Americans are truly awful self absorbed and ignorant people who care about nothing but themselves

So, Checkmate Atheists! Welcome to hell!

Sincerely,

Ty Libby